Managed Cloud-Based SIEM Service
Protect Your Business Globally with Uncompromising Security
Information You Can Act On
Business Drivers
These days, companies face relentless and increasingly
sophisticated security attacks on their corporate networks. Ongoing
collection, correlation and analysis of security data so that you
can act on it is vital in meeting compliance, fending off threats
and protecting critical corporate resources.
Challenges and Needs
With network security attacks on the rise, businesses must be
proactive in strengthening their security infrastructure. Given the
serious consequences for corporate networks that remain vulnerable,
resorting to a do-it-yourself approach to security may expose a
company to significant and irreversible risk.
Implementing strong corporate security is a substantial
undertaking, and requires an airtight security alerts system, a
strategy for handling escalations efficiently, and a carefully
planned incident-ticketing process for tracking and following up on
security-related events.
The inevitable onslaught of alerts events can create headaches
for companies trying to manage their own security information and
event management solutions. Differentiating legitimate threats from
false positives is time-consuming and expensive. On top of that,
assembling, analyzing, and reporting on the millions of log entries
that are generated across various devices is an overwhelming time
sink and takes valuable IT resources away from their priority-one
tasks.
Managed Cloud-Based SIEM Service Overview
Virtela's Managed Cloud-based Security Information & Event
Management (SIEM) service delivers powerful security tools and
expertise to help protect your business-critical server
applications and network resources across multiple devices all day,
every day-so you can dedicate vital company time and expenses to
keeping your business operating at its best.
Managed Cloud-Based SIEM service features include:
- Managed, cloud-based service. Enabled by Virtela Enterprise Services Cloud
(ESC), Managed Cloud-based SIEM service saves you time and
money, with its instant service activation and elimination of
up-front investments in hardware. Plus, you don't get bogged down
in deploying and managing your own SIEM platform. Alternatively, if
you already have an SIEM platform, Virtela can manage your current
implementation and provide ongoing SIEM service.
- Proactive device monitoring. There's no need
to hire extra staff or train your existing staff on the latest
vendor technologies. Let Virtela continuously manage, monitor, and
troubleshoot network health and performance across your entire
infrastructure every minute of the day, and night.
- Regulatory reporting capabilities. Gain
confidence in your auditing tasks with tools that help you create
reports which are in line with compliance requirements for
Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, CA SB-1386, and others. The
service provides real-time investigation of security events to
determine which events should be acted upon-a requirement to meet
increasingly more stringent compliance audits. It provides
accurate visibility into the entire network landscape, not just for
specific devices.
- Individual asset valuation. As part of the
service, Virtela engineers work closely with you to assign a value
to assets such as a device, a network subnet, or a location (e.g.,
data center) based on the potential business impact of the asset
being negatively impacted, to the point of compromise or being
unavailable for an extended period of time. The service then
identifies specific events that generate alerts in real time and
puts into place an action plan uniquely developed based on the
asset values. This customized approach puts your company in a
great position to safeguard against attacks, without requiring
in-house security expertise.
- Integrated with any Virtela security
service. Virtela integrates SIEM and log
retention and management tools with any of its security services to
give you the necessary event-correlation capabilities and
reporting.
- Exceptional customer support. Virtela is
committed to going the extra mile and doing what it takes to
provide the best service for its customers. With a business
model that's carrier, vendor and technology independent, you can
count on flexible, customized solutions--integrating the best
partners to meet your specific needs. Virtela maintains an
impressive 99 percent rate for opening trouble tickets proactively
and responds quickly with 12-second average speed to answer
time. And you can be assured of a Tier 1 Engineer technical
support.
Business Benefits
The key benefits to your business are as follows:
- Save money. Save the cost of purchasing your
own SIEM platform as well as the ongoing expense of training and
support staff to maintain and manage these security functions.
- Comply with regulations. Meet compliance with
security audit reports as well as real-time investigation of
security events to determine which events should be acted
upon.
- Become more efficient. The service allows you
to concentrate on your core business and focus on strategic IT
initiatives while having the peace of mind that you have visibility
to the security threats and health of your entire IT infrastructure
and applications.
Related Resources
FAQs: Implementing Best
Practices to Achieve Compliance and Defend Against Advanced
Persistent Threats (PDF)
Podcast:
Implementing Best Practices to Achieve Compliance and Defend
Against Persistent Threats (MP3)
Analyst Report:
A Case for Unified Network Security Outsourcing (PDF)